Golden Quotes from the book YOUR BRAIN IS PLAYING TRICKS ON YOU

Human beings tend to blindly trust their perception, to the point of considering it to be shared by everyone.

It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.

Someone who thinks they can control everything will tend to blame themselves for mistakes they haven't directly made.

When information contradicts your preferences, convictions, beliefs or behaviours, you feel a state of tension which breaks your balance.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.